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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Wylee

Wylee was the 3943rd most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 28 babies. Its best year was 2013, when it ranked 3858th; the most babies were born in 2024 (29). Over the last ten years it has moved up 2,035 places. More babies were named Wylee in the 2010s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#3,943 boys, up 1,274 places since 2020
Babies in 2025
28boys
Girls and boys
37% girls, 63% boys2021–2025
Peak year
202429 babies
Total since 1880
640babies recorded

Wylee popularity since 1880

012.52537.550 1900192019401960198020002020
GirlsBoys Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.
YearRank (girls)Rank (boys)Babies (girls)Babies (boys)
2025#8,333#3,9431328
2020#12,087#5,217818
2010—#7,564—11
2000#17,553#10,31056
1990—#8,087—6
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How popular is Wylee, counting every spelling?

Wylee is a spelling of Wiley, a name family that ranked #703 for boys in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #3,943 for Wylee on its own. Together these spellings went to 374 boys in 2025.

SpellingBabies 2025Official rankBabies 2021–2025
Wiley165#1,226908
Wylie175#1,182726
Wylee28#3,943114

Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.

How many kids will share the name Wylee?

28 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Wylee (0.01 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Wylee born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 298 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Wylee.

Chance of another Wylee in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Wylee?

About 500 people born in the US named Wylee are alive today, with a median age of 11; half are between 6 and 19. That makes Wylee a young name: most people with it are children.

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Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Names with a similar history

These names rose and fell in step with Wylee: their share of US boys followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Wylee, they share its era and feel.

Questions about the name Wylee

How popular is the name Wylee?

Wylee was the 3943rd most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 28 babies. Its best year was 2013, when it ranked 3858th; the most babies were born in 2024 (29). Over the last ten years it has moved up 2,035 places. More babies were named Wylee in the 2010s than in any other decade.

Is Wylee a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, 37% girls, 63% boys given the name Wylee in the US.